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Olimpija add Damir Markota
Union Olimpija signed Croatian power forward Damir Markota (210cm, 1985) for the upcoming season. He played for Spanish ACB club Bilbao in last two...

Eliyahu returns home
After a brief period of negotiations between Lior Eliyahu and Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, the sides have reached an understanding regarding Lior’s return to Maccabi for the next five...

Finn Sasu Salin signs with Union Olimpija
Nineteen years old Finnish National Team player Sasu Salin (192cm, 1991) signed three years contract with Union Olimpija Ljubljana...

Zalgiris & playmaker Collins reunite
Zalgiris Kaunas and former Euroleague assists king DeJuan Collins are together again after the club announced a one-year deal on Thursday. Collins (188, 33) led the Euroleague in assists with 5.3 per game during the 2007-08...

Maccabi land Pargo
After the serious injury of Mikhail Torrance, whose life is still in danger, Maccabi Tel Aviv had to bring in a replacement and found him in the face of Jeremy...

Bourousis and Tanjevic have a heated tete-a-tete (pics) *UPDATE*
After the end of Greece-Russia game and Russia's win which was "questionable" to say the least, Greek center Bourousis exchanged some heated words with Turkey's coach Bogdan...

WC2010 knock out stage match-ups and schedule
See all the match-ups of the first knock round of the FIBA 2010 World Championship and the full schedule of the...

WC2010 standings and complete list of possible match-ups at the knock out round (FINAL)
Check out the full standings of all four groups of the 2010 world Championship and the possible match-ups at the knock out games of the next...

Group B ends with Brazil thumping Croatia
Brazil have won third place in Group B, with a 92-74 win over Croatia in the final game in Istanbul’s Abdi Ipecki...

Lithuania finish group stage with a win against Lebanon
Lebanon tried to cause an upset in the last game for them in World Championship against Lithuania but it was the Greens who won the game 84-66 after a strong fourth...

Bullock will play for Cajasol
Louis Bullock (1'85, 1976) will play next season in Seville. Cajasol signed a one year deal with the former starting shooting guard of Real Madrid. After Unicaja and Madrid, this will be the third team he plays for in Spain. Last year he averaged 10 ppg and 1'5 apg in 19'5 minutes every...

Cajasol inks Mindaugas Katelynas
Cajasol Seville added another piece to their roster. Mindaugas Katelynas became the latest addition to the club. Lithuanian forward arrives from another ACB team Meridiano Alicante. 27-year-old player averaged 11.2 points in ACB last...

Spartak announce Domercant
Spartak Saint Petersburg have announced the signing of American-Bosnian-Herzegovinian shooting guard Henry Domercant for the next three...

Chatzivrettas remains Aris captain
Nikos Chatzivrettas will remain Aris captain in the upcoming season after he agreed to extend his contract by one more season, accepting a generous wages...

Chatman close to Besiktas
Istanbul, Turkey-  All signs show that Mire Chatman will return to the fourth place Turkish Club Besiktas for two more season. The 31 year old guard is also hoping to get Turkish citizenship. Chatman was statistically one of the best rated players in the TBL last season when he was ranked within the top three players in all three categories scoring, assists and...

Ukraine keep GB sweating on 1st
Standard Life Great Britain ended their EuroBasket Qualifying round, with defeat in Dnipropetrovsk to Ukraine, 75-66. But it didn’t affect the Brits chances, as they had already qualified for...

Ukraine beat GB Women
Standard Life Great Britain ended their EuroBasket qualifying campaign with a 70-66 defeat in Ukraine - but, despite the loss, GB had already clinched a spot in next year’s EuroBasket in...

Deng explodes as GB plan Lithuania
Standard Life Great Britain have qualified for their second straight EuroBasket event - after seeing off the challenge of Bosnia &Herzegovina 94-85, after a period of overtime in...

GB Women qualify for Poland in style.
Standard Life Great Britain Women secured their place at EuroBasket 2011 in Poland, with a 77-59 hammering of Germany in...

GB Women secure big win in Slovakia
Standard Life Great Britain scored an unlikely win in Kosice, as they beat the Slovak Republic, 70-63 - to improve to 3-1 in Group D - and close in on a birth at EuroBasket 2011 in...

Zamroz Shoots In For Riders
Free scoring guard Ryan Zamroz is the latest addition to the Jelson Homes DMU Leicester Riders squad for the 2010/11...

Czynienik returns to Raiders
Former Polish junior international Michal Czynienik will return to the UCP Marjon Plymouth Raiders for the 2010/11 season. The 6'8" centre returns to the Raiders for the second successive season, and is determined to earn more playing time for himself this...

Betts To Become Riders Ambassador
Leicestershire's premier basketball player, Andy Betts, is to take on the role of Sporting Ambassador of the Jelson Homes DMU Leicester...

Rocks Sign Fantazia
The Glasgow Rocks have completed the signing of 6'4" Point Guard, Brice Fantazia. The American point guard is the Rocks third and final American import signing for Sterling Davis' 2010-11 Rocks...

Watts Signs For The Wolves
Head Coach Paul James has lured 6' 9" English forward David Watts, known as 'Tin Tin', to Worcester for the 2010/11 season.  Watts, an England International, showed his quality and impressed this summer under Coach James with some excellent performances during the recent...

Tepic: I would never go to Olympiacos like Spanoulis did
Milenko Tepic who is currently preparing with the Serbian National Team for the 2010 World Championship gave an exclusive interview to Panathinaikos BC affiliated newspaper "Prasini" and TalkBasket translated it and presents it to...

Kobe's interview to Sky Italia (vid)
Kobe Bryant was in South Africa to watch the game USA - Ghana two days ago and yesterday he found himself at a football school in Soweto where Sky Italia picked him up for an...

TalkBasket's one-on-one with Chris Paul
Now I’m not going to lie, I don’t normally cover the NBA. But with the World Championships coming up, New Orleans Hornets and Team USA point-guard, Chris Paul in London re-opening a new sports facility at a local school - and an invitation from Nike to attend. I would be a bit of an idiot not to show my...

Interview with Obie Trotter
Kristian Santiago had the chance to talk to U.S. guard Obie Trotter, who was awarded Guard of the Year in Finland by Eurobasket.com and was voted to the All-Imports and to the All-Finish League 1st Team as...

Nocioni: I prefer to return to Europe
The situation is the following: "Chapu" still has 2 years left on his contract with the Kings. However he does not want to continue there and has already notified the club of his decision. The club itself is not negative on letting him go, but any action will be taken after the NBA Draft that is taking place in a couple of weeks. Real Madrid and his ex-team Caja Laboral are reportedly interested in...

Matt Dobek Dies Suddenly
Former Vice President of Media Relations for the Detroit Pistons, Matt Dobek died unexpectedly in his Rochester Hills, Michigan home. He was well known in Professional basketball and International basketball...

NBA Star Athletes and Their Look-A-Likes
Did you ever notice that NY Knicks' Raymond Felton and Jets CB Darrelle Revis look alike? Or how about Snoop Dog and Miami Heat's Chris Bosh? Well you're in luck because MSG.com has just launched the "Ultimate Celebrity Look-a-like Photo Gallery" featuring some of the hottest NBA pros including Felton, Bosh, and...

Finch: Dan Clark has an excellent basketball IQ
On September 10th 2009, a young 20-year-old man boarded a plane from Warsaw International to London’s Heathrow Airport - and despite his 6 foot 11 inch frame, this young man sat in a Standard Class seat and no-one gave him a second...

Who is who: Alfa Fasengas
Alfa Fasengas is reported to be the latest acquisition of Panathinaikos. So far so good. Just one question: who on earth is Alfa Fasengas??? Let's have a look at this player whose name we've never heard of before...

Losing stars is not such a bad thing
Whilst the slowly growing legion of British hoops supporters waits anxiously to see just how their GB heroes perform in the EuroBasket Qualifiers, it’s incredible that after two-and-a-half years of rebuilding, we, as fans are upping our own personal...

Europeans smell like dead donkeys?
American international star Danny Granger is not enjoying his stay in Turkey where the FIBA World Championship is taking place... but...

Kaimakoglou on US-Tour
No, Kostas Kaimakoglou is not a rock star. But after a tiresome and highly successful season with Maroussi, and both Greek powerhouses being interested in his signature, the 27-year old needed a...

Vujacic - Sharapova spotted in Italy (pics)
Sasha Vujacic and Maria Sharapova were spotted in Italy, walking the streets of Unine where a friend of the Slovenian beau was getting married. Check out the...

Rakocevic ends up in hospital (pic)
Igor Rakocevic left the US where he was on holiday some days ago to attend Boki Nachbar's training camp for children, in Slovenia. But things didn't go all that well for the Serbian...

My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Wedding fever last weekend in Greece where both Manolis Papamakarios and Nikos Zissis enetered the married-men club. Guests included Ksistof Lavrinovic, JR Holden, Teo Papaloukas and many...